It’s futile. Reddit doesn’t care about the fallout, and it’s only going to worse as they prepare to sell.
The hilarious part is that Fidelity, a current investor in Reddit, already cut the valuation of their stake in Reddit by 41%.. Its obvious that investors already see Reddit as a sinking ship and that the social media value bubble run on debt is deflating, now that the free money Fed policy is a distant memory. All these moves are going to do is shutter their company with zero to show for it. Had they just done nothing, their IPO would have probably gone better lmfao. Most intelligent Reddit ceo moment.
See I’m taking this as another hit to the quality of the platform Us who flee aren’t the ones who lurk, but the ones who make comments or produce content. Exoduses like this have happened before and the quality has sunk ever so slightly. The black out of subreddits will hopefully make more people aware of the changes, and make Reddit know that people don’t like said changes. It’s still a good thing even if nothing happens.
A lot of lurkers are gonna flee the platform too though, but they might not join other sites/communities like Lemmy to replace it. So the loss for Reddit will be bigger than those who choose to migrate to Lemmy. And I expect a few lurkers from Reddit, like myself for the most part, are gonna be more active on Lemmy, since the community seems a lot less toxic. I didn’t care too much about contributing on Reddit, since pretty much every discussion attracted trolls, spammers, or just hostile users, and the discussions, the exchange of ideas and experiences just vanished or drowned in a sea of noise.
Just joined lemmy because of reddit’s decision. Goodbye reddit. I’ll keep my account on reddit up just long enough to see it go the way of Digg.
It’s good to have options now
Yeah, I’m certainly not going to delete my Reddit account immediately. When Digg was fucking up, it took several rounds and I really made sure I was going to be comfortable on Reddit before I deleted my account there. But once critical mass was achieved, there were major threads on Digg that became literal ghost towns of deleted account comments pretty quickly. It was obvious what was happening. I don’t expect we’re going to see quite the same massive collapse at Reddit unless they follow up this API decision with killing old.reddit in a month and then dropping all NSFW communities in another month. If they do those things, Reddit is going to essentially die.
I’m waiting for a strategic moment to pull out. If they don’t address the concerns of the user base and the moderators, after the protest, I’ll delete my account. I’ve been on Lemmy for a while but it really lacked users. So post Reddit it’ll either be Lemmy of nothing.
Honestly, at this point im hoping reddit fucks up even more so that more people switch to lemmy, seems most are switching now more than ever, heck its the reason why i heard about it in the first place
Same here! I really hope Lemmy starts catching on or Reddit will never listen to its users as currently there’s no real Reddit competitor (aside from Lemmy, of course)
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Reddit is fun is the best reddit app. I wish the creator made a Lemmy app instead, based on RIF. I would actually pay for it.
I’m writing this exact comment from a 3rd party Lemmy Android app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa
So far it looks very promising, although its not quite RIF.
